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WAFC formed 1989?
If folks around here can call the AFL, VFL, then I can call the WAFL the WAFC.
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WAFC formed 1989?
Prior to late 80's, the WAFL & SANFL still retained many/most great players/champions in their competitions (ie they never went, or only went later in their careers, to the VFL). Even after 1990, the WAFL & SANFL were high standard competitions attracting good crowds (but crowds are in a worrying major decline now).
The WAFL & SANFL, therefore, still retained great prestige/big crowds/ high standards/good elite jnr. pathways.
In Tas., however, they lost a large majority of their great players -thus the standard of their elite comps. plummeted. Without the fallback of their own AFL team, & the related glamour/expert coaching etc. filtering down to lower comps., Tas.GR AF was severely damaged. We must NEVER forget that Tas. produced 14 players drafted to the VFL in 1986.
The VFL/AFL can no longer disguise/bury/spin their way out of the destruction they have caused to Tas. elite standards, their senior comps., & to GR AF. The huge crowds, per capita, the TFL, NTFA, NWFU previously experienced made Tas., most likely, the most fanatical AF state in Aust.
When you look at the list of VFL players who came down & played &/or coached here, you can see how far our football has been pulled down. When you see a Peter Hudson make his comeback here in the TFL, then go back to Hawthorn for a year, you can see where we were.
If folks around here can call the AFL, VFL, then I can call the WAFL the WAFC.
You didnt appear a near enough type. Relevant when it followed the VFL move to a Commission structure in 1985 as you posted.